I read a news regarding The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Starting on June 30th 2018, New Powder Restrictions will be enforced for international flights. Passengers carrying more than 12 ounces (350mL) of powder, except for organic powders, will have to have additional screening.

I understand this is for security purpose. That being said, as an international traveler, I miss back in older days when the TSA restriction was not complicated as nowadays.

I am planning to visit Japan in this winter. Just thinking about their strict security screening of my luggage and myself makes me feel reluctant.   

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Nowadays I have troubles with skin rushes all over my body. It happens only in the morning. It does not stay for long. Only for 10 minutes for the longest.

Based on my observation, I get rushes not only at home but also some other specific areas. Such examples are the cafeteria at my daughter’s school and the grocery store. When I thought of these three areas, they have dusts. So I thought I might be allergic to some specific types of dusts.

Today I thoroughly cleaned the carpets, the couches, and the cushions at the entire house with the carpet shampooers.

Luckily we had a hot and sunny day today. After shampooing, I took everything out at the backyard and let them sun dry.

It was a tough job. I got all sweat and muscle pain for doing these. I hope my efforts will work well to avoid any further rushes on my skin.

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Yesterday I changed the setting on my cell phone, and now that I can receive international calls. I wanted to convey this great news to my mom.

My mom is not good at typing text messages on her cell phone. Her text message is very short because she omits lots of important information. Reading her text messages always gives me a bunch of lots of question marks. I have to guess what she really means. I feel like solving some mysterious codes whenever I read my mom’s text messages.

In order to communicate with my mom, talking on the phone is the best way.

Today when I talked my mom on the phone, her voice sounded much healthier and happier than before.

Earlier this month, she had the detailed physical examination. Because we communicated with text messages, I didn’t know enough information about the result. All she told me was that the doctor prescribed her some medicines.

While talking on the phone I finally knew the medicine was antibiotic for her cough. The antibiotic worked well so that my mom’s cough completely went away. She told me she feels much better than before.

It was great talking with her on the phone.

Emails and text messages are convenient, but listening to actual voices on the phone is a more powerful tool than reading text messages. 

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Today I received a message from my family spirits. The message came out of the blue. It was “check your cell phone’s setting about international calls.” The term “setting” was emphasized for some reasons.

That reminded me of my past experiences. My parents and friends in Japan told me about their unsuccessfulness in reaching me on the phone. I never thought of the setting on my cell phone, until I received the message.

So, I called my cell phone company. The representative told me my cell phone keeps as its default setting. As the default setting, receiving international calls are “disabled”. With my request, the representative changed the setting to “enabled.”

Now that I can receive an international call on my cell phone.

I appreciate my family spirits to guide me this process on changing the cell phone setting. Isn’t it amazing that they can give you even this kind of daily life advice? I thought it cool.

If I were under some stress, I would not have been able to hear the message from my family spirits. It is always good to stay being open, without stress, so that your family spirits can support you in everything. 

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This morning’s dream was impressive.

Somebody (probably my spirit guide) showed up and handed me a gift. When I received it in my arms, it turned to be a baby lion. I looked at the face of the baby lion. It was tiny and adorable. I also noticed it was surrounded by strength and charismatic energy as a lion. Right before I left my dream world, my spirit guide told me not to forget about this dream. I promised him I wouldn’t.

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When I woke up I still had a vivid image of the baby lion back of my eyes. I didn’t know exactly what they wanted to tell me through this dream.

So, I meditated about it. As soon as I quieted my mind, the block of thoughts was delivered to my mind.

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The lion was shown as a metaphor. It was still a baby so that it needed to some supports to grow up at this moment. This lion was born with great possibility and future. When the lion grows up, it will become a great leader in the jungle. It will help many other animals in the future.

I quickly understood what my family spirits tried to tell me. The baby lion represented a good friend of mine. Currently she has been dealing with some important issue. Since it is her personal issue, I cannot help her out directly. I decided to not to support her on this matter. I wanted her to deal with it all by herself.

That being said, she seems to be completely lost. She is stressed out and cusses around everything surrounding this matter. She cannot sleep well. She wakes up mad and leaves home mad. When she starts her day in such negative feeling, it attracts another negative energy, so that she cannot escape from the negative loop.

She asked me for some idea and advice. I shared my thoughts about this matter. I also shared some technique with her. I told her like this.

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This matter happens for a reason. Stop cussing about everything and everybody. This does not happen to you as a punishment. It is more like an opportunity for you to have drastic changes in your patterns. 

Start your day with appreciation and happy thoughts. Everything happens as a blessing. Think about every possibility that you can learn from this matter. You will learn good communication skills. You will change your thinking pattern from a negative cycle to a positive cycle. Once you solve this issue, you will gain confidence in you. That will make you even happier and stronger than before.

When you meet everybody who supports you with this matter, treat them as your guide spirits. Trust their kindness and efficiency. Once you enter an application cycle and a positive thinking cycle, nobody and nothing can bother you anymore. All the issues will be solved by themselves. You will be surprised.

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While I am writing this for her, I am filled with certainty that she will be fine. She will solve the issue quicker than she thinks.

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This morning after my daughter had gone to school, I was relaxing my alone time drinking the medicine herbal tea at home. A sudden phone call broke my silent moment.

It was from the teacher at her school. Any phone call from my daughter’s school make me feel uneasy.

With my heart ponding, I answered the phone.

The teacher said my daughter had a bug bite or something on her cheek. She had a slightly reddish eye.

While listening to the teacher, I got a vision of my daughter. I had a confidence that she was fine.

I told the teacher it was probably not from a bug bite, but from somebody’s pets’ hair. My daughter is allergic to some type of pets’ hair. She gets rush all over her body with reddish eyes. But luckily her reaction does not always go really bad. All she needs is to take a shower, and she will get better quickly.

I also told the teacher I will be right there to pick my daughter up.

The great thing for us is our house is very close to the school. Within 5 minutes from the teacher’s call, I was at the school picking my daughter up.

Right after we got back home, my daughter run to the bathroom and took a shower.

As I predicted, the allergic symptom disappeared when she got out of a shower.

After she spent 2 hours at home relaxing and eating lunch, she went back to the summer school program.

My morning went by so quickly.

I was glad I was available when my daughter needed me today. If I had been gone for job or appointment to the next city, I would not have taken care of my daughter as I could today. I appreciate my current situation. I want to be available for my daughter whenever she needs me.

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This is an update of the Japanese school textbook. On July 2nd, I sent a request for the Japanese school textbooks to Consulate-General of Japan. I received the 3rd grader’s textbook the other day. I was waiting for the 2nd grader’s textbooks in a separate envelop.

I called Consulate-General of Japan about the update. They representative told me they sent out two packages to me. They included the textbooks for the 3rd grader in one package, and the textbooks for the 2nd grader in the other package. She gave me the tracking numbers for the two packages.

According to the tracking numbers, the two envelops were sent on the same day. One package has arrived to our house without delay, but the other package was sent to Pittsburgh for some reasons (maybe simply by human error) and came back to Arizona.

Finally today, the second package arrived. The package was worn out with dirt and stains from the long travel.  Anyhow, I am happy for its safe arrival.

Now we have the textbooks for the 2nd grader and the 3rd grader. We don’t have the textbooks for the 1st grader. I need to think about on how I should start teaching my daughter with the 2nd grader’s textbooks.

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At the beginning of my daughter’s summer school in June, my neighbor offered us a ride to school. She gives a ride to her little boy to school. The little boy participates in the same programs as my daughter does.

We could have walked to school but I was happy to hear her kind offer. So, I respectfully accepted her offer. Since then, we have rode to school together every morning. I enjoy chatting with her.

We have known each other for years but we never had opportunity to chat.

It is fun to get to know her. Every day I get to know her little by little. It is like opening surprise gifts every day. It seems to me she has gone through a lot. That gives her lots of wisdom and knowledge. I always love to hear people’s real story.

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She is 70 years old. I thought she is the grandma for the little boy, but my guess was wrong. She is a great-grand mother to him. She had her son at the age of 19. Her son also had two daughters at his young age of 20 and 21. Then, her granddaughters too had their kids at their young age of early 20s.

She takes care of her great-grand-son every day. The little boy goes to the school in next town, and the school does not offer the school bus to our area. So, she gives him a ride to and from school every morning and evening. It takes 30 minutes one way. Thus, she drives 2 hours every day for her great-grad-son during the normal school days.

She also has a full custody for her great-grand-daughter who just turned to 16 years old. Her granddaughter gave away her custody due to some drag issue. 

She never talks about her husband. I guess she might have her son as a single mother in her young age.

I was amazed at her story. It sounds tough, but at the same time, she sure receives lots of love and blessings from her grandchildren.

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She asked me if Japanese has a habit of spanking a child as discipline. I answered I don’t think we do. She mentioned they had in her younger days. She also mentioned “sadly some people still do.”

She witnessed one of her old friends used to spank her children to discipline. The children are now grown-ups and still don’t listen to others. She believes spanking does not work to discipline. She believes when an adult talks to a little child logically, with looking straight into their eyes, about the reason why they should not do this and that, small kids will fully understand. They don’t need to be punished in order to be discipline.

I agree with her. We don’t need to give any kinds of physical punishments to children to discipline.

When I heard my neighbor mentioning about physical punishment to children, I thought about myself.

I never hit nor spank my daughter. That being said, I was not a super nice mother all the time. I yelled at her when she was still a baby.

When my daughter came back home, I asked her if she remembers my yelling at her when she was a baby. She said she remembers. I apologized her for that. She said she accepts my apology.

Nobody can do it right all the time. We sometimes make a mistake as a parent. The important thing is we can make it up with our children to face to them and apologize to them sincerely. Then, we can change our attitude from the next time.

We cannot change our past. But at least we can change our presence. Changning our presence will change our future better. That is how we grow our mentality and spirituality day by day.

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My daughter often asks me about the meanings of palm lines. That was exactly what I did to my grandfather when he was still alive. So, I tried to convey my memories and knowledge about the meanings of palm lines as much as I can.

My daughter’s life line was cut in half at the age range of 40 years old. As far as I know, it means something drastic in life will happen around the age. So, in her case, when she is around 40 years old, she might experience something unusual. It cannot be said good or bad. A tough experience usually will turn out a great leaning for the person.

For example, she might have a near-death experience. The experience might sound tough, but it might turn out to be one of the greatest experiences for her. Or, she might experience to stop the previous life style. It can be changing job from the old one to a new one. Sometimes old habit has to be ceased in order to start something new.

I told her not to worry. It might be something that she planned for a life-changing event. She will always receive supports from her family spirits. Whatever happens to her will be good for her all in all.

She said she does not remember such transitional life plan. She wanted to change her life line to a normal line.

I told her everybody can change their life plan as they like. As for the palm lines, they can simply draw lines as they like.

For example, if they want to make their life longer than they planned, they can simply extend their life line with a ball-point pen. Or other people might want to have a long and solid marriage line, instead of having some short and weak marriage lines. In this case, they can draw one strong solid marriage line.

As they do this procedure every day, they can change their palm lines. This is due to our free will. We can change our life plan as we like, and as we go in life.

After heard my explanation, my daughter started drawing a strong solid line in her life line every day. She also started drawing an extended line on my life line. She wants me to live longer for her and her children-to-be.

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Here in southern Arizona, we are enjoying Monsoon. Unlike Japan where raining in morning and daytime is common, we seldom have rain in the morning and daytime. We usually have rain in the evening and night. Autumn is coming very close day by day. So far, the weather in our area goes normally as previous years.

On the other hand, Japan seems to have extreme weather this year.

All of my friends in Japan told me about their “abnormalness” in the weather in their area. Some friends mentioned about the extreme high temperature as 40C (104F) in their areas. I’ve never experienced this high temperature while living in Japan.

The other friend mentioned about the abnormal rainy season in her area. This year the rainy season ended much earlier than the previous years.  

My parents recently experienced the historic heavy rain in their area.

Weather does affects people’s feelings. Anything extreme can disturb their peaceful in their mind.

I sincerely hope the weather in Japan will soon get back to normal, so that the people can have their peaceful live back to normal.

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